KR20180117932A - Pharmaceutical packaging apparatus and pharmaceutical packaging method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a pharmaceutical packaging apparatus and a pharmaceutical packaging method using the same. The pharmaceutical packaging method comprises the following steps of: supplying drugs to any one of a plurality of cells formed in a rotating hopper from a pharmaceutical release device; photographing and inspecting the supplied drugs; selecting a width of a predetermined pharmaceutical sheet based on a photographed pharmaceutical image; transmitting the drugs to the pharmaceutical sheet; and sealing the pharmaceutical sheet with the selected width.

Description

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical packaging apparatus and a pharmaceutical packaging method using the same,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a medicine packaging apparatus, and more particularly, to a medicine packaging apparatus that adjusts the width of a medicine sheet according to a volume of a medicine and improves accuracy of dispensing.

In general, the automatic medicine packing machine is accommodated in a medicine dispensing device which accepts and dispenses the unshaped tablets such as regular tablets and semispheres, and the powder form powder, so that the medicine can be dispensed automatically or independently in accordance with the prescription of the patient, .

Such a medicine automatic packing machine is a product in which the reliability and reliability of the operation are very important, for example, the type and amount of the medicine to be taken once are discharged according to the input, and therefore, the medicine packed in the wrapping paper for one- And the number of medicines according to the prescription.

Disposing a device for inspecting a drug has a problem that the space is inefficient and the overall volume of the drug packaging device is increased.

It is common that the medicines are packed with a certain or set width irrespective of the quantity or volume of the medicament and there is a problem that the medicinal sheet is wasted compared with the amount of the medicament.

In order to solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a medicine packaging apparatus capable of ensuring the accuracy of supplied medicines and determining the width of a suitable medicament sheet according to the volume of the medicament.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a medicine dispenser, comprising: receiving a medicine from any one of a plurality of cells formed in a rotary hopper from a medicine dispensing apparatus; photographing and inspecting the supplied medicine; Selecting a width of a predetermined medicament sheet based on the image, transferring the medicament to the medicament sheet, and sealing the medicament sheet with the selected width.

Wherein the step of selecting the width of the predetermined medicament sheet comprises the steps of obtaining area information from the photographed medicament image, selecting a width of the predetermined medicament sheet corresponding to the obtained area information from among a plurality of widths of a predetermined medicament sheet .

The photographing and inspecting of the medicine may include vibrating the cell where the medicine is located and taking the medicine again when the supplied medicine is photographed with the superimposed image.

The pharmaceutical packaging method may further include printing drug information on a predetermined area of the drug sheet based on the selected width before delivering the drug to the drug sheet.

The sealing step may include sealing the longitudinal heater roller by rotating the longitudinal heater roller by the predetermined width, and then rotating the longitudinal heater roller and the transverse heater roller together.

The sealing step may be such that the transverse heater rollers are rotated 180 degrees.

The method further includes a step of discarding the drug contained in the cell supplied with the drug and supplying the drug to the cell again when the quantity extracted from the taken drug image and the amount of the prescription are different.

The drug packaging method may further include, if the quantity extracted from the photographed drug image is smaller than the prescription quantity, marking the drug contained in the cell supplied with the drug with a marker that can be erased on the sealed drug sheet have.

The drug packaging method may further include supplying the missing drug through the re-dispensing unit when the quantity extracted from the taken drug image is smaller than the prescription quantity.

The method may further comprise the step of supplying the medicament through a special injection unit capable of individually supplying the amorphous tablet or the special-purpose medicament.

The present invention relates to a medicine dispenser, comprising: a rotating hopper in which a plurality of moving cells are formed and which receives a medicine from a medicine dispenser through a charging unit and transfers the medicine to a discharge unit; A control unit for selecting a width of a predetermined drug sheet based on the photographed drug image, a sealing unit for supplying the medicine to the drug sheet from the rotary hopper, and sealing the drug sheet with the selected width, The present invention can achieve the above-mentioned object.

The control unit may acquire area information from the photographed drug image and select a width of the predetermined medicine sheet corresponding to the obtained area information from a plurality of widths of a predetermined drug sheet.

Wherein the sealing unit comprises a pair of longitudinal sealing rollers disposed under the discharge portion and sealing longitudinally of the half-folded medicinal sheet, and a pair of transverse sealing rollers Wherein the control unit is able to determine the stopping and driving of the pair of transverse sealing rollers based on the predetermined medicament sheet width.

When the quantity extracted from the photographed drug image is smaller than the prescription quantity, the rotary hopper may include a re-injection unit for supplying the missing drug.

And a marker, which is contained in the cell to which the drug is supplied, may be erased on the sealed drug sheet when the quantity extracted from the photographed drug image is smaller than the quantity of the prescription.

Wherein the inspection unit comprises: a video input device for photographing one cell including the delivered medicament; And a vibrating device for dispersing the tablets of the one cell.

The rotating hopper may include an additional input for feeding at least one of an atypical agent or a special handling agent.

The present invention judges the accuracy of drug supply based on the photographed images, and based on this, it is possible to increase the accuracy and promptness by reintroduction of medicines, disposal of medicines, and reproduction.

In addition, the present invention can acquire volume, type, shape, and area information of the medicine based on the photographed image, calculate the volume information of the entire medicine, determine the drug sheet width based on the volume information, It is advantageous to package it.

1 is a front view showing a medicine packing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a front view showing a part of a pharmaceutical packaging apparatus for showing the arrangement of a rotary hopper and a sealing unit of a pharmaceutical packaging apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a perspective view showing the rotary hopper.
Figure 4 is a top view of the rotating hopper of Figure 3;
Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing the arrangement of the illumination device in the collection area.
6 is a view showing a photographing path of the image input apparatus and an optical path of the illumination apparatus.
7 is a front view showing the sealing unit.
8 is a view showing a drug sheet whose length is variable.
Fig. 9 is a diagram showing the indication on the medicine sheet judged to be deficient in medicine.
Figs. 10 and 11 are views showing the rotation state of the heater roller of the sealing unit. Fig.
FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a drug packaging process.
FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the photographing and inspection process of the medicine of FIG. 12 in detail.
14 is a schematic diagram showing the arrangement of medicament to explain the calculation process of the width of the package based on the number of medicines.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present document will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, that the techniques described herein are not intended to be limited to any particular embodiment, but rather include various modifications, equivalents, and / or alternatives of the embodiments of this document. In connection with the description of the drawings, like reference numerals may be used for similar components.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of the other embodiments. The singular expressions may include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, may have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. The general predefined terms used in this document may be interpreted in the same or similar sense as the contextual meanings of the related art and, unless expressly defined in this document, include ideally or excessively formal meanings . In some cases, even the terms defined in this document can not be construed as excluding the embodiments of this document.

Hereinafter, the configuration of a medicine packaging apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a medicine packing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a part of a medicine packing apparatus for showing the arrangement of a rotary hopper and a sealing unit of a medicine packing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, a medicine packing apparatus 1 is composed of a medicine dispensing apparatus 10 and a lower body 20. The medicine dispensing apparatus (10) includes at least one of a tablet storage portion, an atypical tablet storage portion, a powdered medicine storage portion and a special handling medicine storage portion.

The tablet reservoir accommodates the regular tablet. The tablet storage unit includes a plurality of tablet cassettes for storing tablets for each type.

The atypical tablet storage portion houses an irregular tablet. Here, the irregularized tablet is a receiving part for receiving tablets whose shape is not constant like a half-piece tablet. The amorphous tablet storage part may be configured to include a plurality of automatic tablet cassette autoclaves for storing the amorphous tablets for each type, and the powdered storage part contains a powdered medicine.

The special handling medicine storage portion is a space for storing medicines to be separately managed such as drugs which can not be stored in the tablet storage portion or the amorphous tablet storage portion due to the handling and management of the medicine. The specially treated medicament storage portion may be made to include a tray.

Referring to FIG. 2, the lower body 20 includes a main hopper 210, a rotating hopper 300, and a sealing unit 400.

The main hopper 210 guides the medicine delivered from the tablet cassette 15 of the medicine dispenser 10 to the rotary hopper 300. The medicine is transferred to the rotary hopper 300 through the insertion portion 211 disposed under the main hopper and the medicine is transferred to the medicine sheet 510 through the discharge portion D of the rotary hopper (see FIG. The medicine sheet 510 having received the medicine is sealed and packed in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction of the medicine sheet 510 while passing through the sealing unit 400. The medicine sheet 510 is fed from the sheet feeding roller 500 and fed to the printing unit 600 through the first to fifth transfer rollers 501, 502, 503, 504 and 505, (510).

The printing unit 600 can print information such as medication time, patient information and the like on the medicine sheet 510 and deliver the medicine sheet 510 to the sealing unit 400 before the medicine sheet 510 is sealed. The printing unit 600 may print medication information or the like on the medicament sheet 510 before sealing and transfer the medicament information to the sealing unit 400 to continuously pack the medicines without stopping the sealing unit 400. [

Since the medicine is taken through the image input device 513 in the collection area A through the rotary hopper 300, it is possible to secure the movement time to the discharge area D by the medicine. Therefore, while the medicine is moving to the discharge area D, the printing unit 600 can print the medicine information on the medicine sheet 510. [

The medicines to be added through the reintroduction hopper 220 for guiding the medicines to the reintroduction portion 212 are transferred to the rotary hopper 300. The medicine can be manually input by the pharmacist through the re-insertion tray 221. Through this, the drug that is missing through the atypical drug or the test is supplied to the reintroducing part.

The special handling agent is supplied through the special handling tray 231 and the supplied agent is guided to the additional loading section 213 through the special handling hopper 230 and supplied to the rotary hopper 300.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the rotary hopper, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the rotary hopper of Fig.

Referring to FIG. 3, the rotary hopper 300 includes a transfer member 110 for transferring a medicine and a partitioning member 120. The conveying member 110 is formed by a combination of the links to form a closed curve, and one end of the partitioning member 120 is fixed between the links.

The fixing part 350 of the rotary hopper 300 is attached to a case or a supporting part inside the lower body 20 to fix the rotary hopper 300.

The partitioning member 120 divides the inner space of the rotary hopper 300 to form a plurality of cells 150. When the partitioning member 120 moves due to the rotation of the conveying member 110, the medicines stored in the plurality of cells 150 move in the rotating direction.

In FIG. 3, the rotary hopper 300 has been described based on the conveying member 110 connected by a link. However, the rotary hopper 300 is not limited thereto and may be formed of a rotary hopper 300 having a circular bottom and partition walls.

The medicine supplied through the input part 211 connected to the main hopper 210 is transferred to the collection area A of the rotary hopper 300. The medicine supplied through the re-insertion portion 212 is supplied to the re-insertion region B and the medicine supplied through the additional insertion portion 213 is transferred to the additional supply region C.

Referring to FIG. 4, an inspection unit including a video input device 153, a lighting device 151, and a vibration device 152 may be provided in the collection area A disposed below the loading part. The illumination device 151 is disposed below the collection area A and the bottom part 150a located in the collection area A where the illumination device 151 is disposed may be made of a transparent or translucent material. The image input device 153 can be disposed on the side or top surface of the collection area, and the medicine supplied to the cells arranged in the collection area A can be photographed. The vibrating device 152 can vibrate the collection area A to disperse the medicine stored in the cell. In the case where the medicine is superimposed on the image taken by the image input device 153 or it is difficult to grasp the shape of the medicine, the vibration device 152 vibrates the collection area A, ) Can take a medicine.

The image input device 153 and the illumination device 151 and the vibration device 152 may be provided together or may be disposed at positions other than the collection area A. [

Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the arrangement of the illumination device in the collection area, Fig. 6 is a view showing the photographing path of the image input device and the light path of the illumination device.

Referring to FIG. 5, it is shown that an auxiliary illumination device 155 is disposed above the collection area A. FIG. The main hopper 210 is arranged to occupy a part of the upper part of the charging part 211 and the auxiliary lighting device 155 is arranged in the remaining space. Through this, the auxiliary illumination device 155 can supply uniform light throughout the collection area A. The medicine supplied to the main hopper 210 is transferred to the bottom portion 150a of the collecting area A through the charging part 211. [

In this case, the auxiliary illumination device 155 may be formed in a dome shape to supply even light. Further, the polarization member can be disposed on the optical path of the illumination device 151 and the auxiliary illumination device 155 so that the diffusion of light is constant.

The illumination device 151 provides illumination to the medicine side. The illumination device 151 may be a backlight or a predetermined light emitting device and may be disposed at a position opposite to the optical path of the image input device 153. For example, the image input device 153 may face the top surface of the bottom portion 150a of the collection area A, and the lighting device 151 may be disposed on the bottom surface of the bottom portion 150a. The lighting device 151 is not limited to the above-described backlight device, but may be implemented by a general light emitting device or by a combination of a light emitting device and a backlight.

Referring to FIG. 6, the image input device 153 faces the reflecting mirror 156. The image transmitted from the bottom portion 150a can be taken through the reflecting mirror 156 and the medicine supplied to the bottom portion 150a of the collection region A can be photographed.

In addition, the illumination device 155 may have an opening 155a to secure the optical path la to the image input device 153. When the illumination of the illumination device 155 is emitted from the side, the half mirror 157 is used to refract the light from the illumination device 155, pass the image of the medicine through the reflector 156 to the image input device 153).

As described above, the reflector 156 and the half mirror 157 can be used to capture light and image of the drug, but it is not so limited, and it emits light at the top of the auxiliary illumination device 155, The video input device may be disposed in the video input device. In addition, only the video input device 153 may be disposed without the auxiliary illumination device 155. [

The auxiliary illumination device 155 may not be used when a clear image is captured by the video input device 153 using only the illumination device 151. [ The illumination device 151 and the auxiliary illumination device 155 may be configured to emit various colors according to the color of the medicine.

Assuming that the conveying member 110 of the rotary hopper 300 rotates counterclockwise, the waste portion 310 may be disposed on the path through which the medicine in the collection region A is conveyed. When the medicine is different from the prescription, the medicine placed on the waste part 310 is transferred to the waste part 310 while the shutter 320 is opened. Thereafter, the conveying member 110 rotates clockwise, and the medicine is received again in the collecting area A, and the medicine can be photographed and inspected.

When the medicament is smaller than the prescription quantity, the conveying member 110 rotates counterclockwise to move the cell containing the medicament into the re-introduction area B, Medication can be delivered.

The conveying member 110 is continuously rotated in the counterclockwise direction to move the cell containing the medicine into the discharge region D and the medicine is discharged to the lower portion of the rotary hopper 300 in the discharge region D formed by the opening .

Since the medicine delivered to the collection area A moves to the opening of the discharge area D, the inspection unit can be arranged in one area in the path of the medicine. The reintroduction area B and the waste part 310 are collected and reintroduced in the reintroduction area B because the medicine is reintroduced based on the result of the inspection and the disposal part 310 also discards the medicine based on the result of the inspection, Is preferably disposed between the region (A) and the discharge region (D).

When the special handling agent is delivered, the additional supply area C is used to transfer the cell containing the special handling agent to the collection area A to receive the medicine contained in the tablet cassette 15 (see FIG. 1) have.

The collecting area A, the re-supplying area B, the additional supplying area C and the discharging area D are provided with a charging part 211, a re-charging part 212, (213) and the position of the discharge opening. 3 and 4, the collecting area A, the re-feeding area B, the additional feeding area C and the discharging area D can be arranged at different positions on the rotary hopper .

FIG. 7 is a front view showing the sealing unit, FIG. 8 is a view showing a drug sheet with a variable length, FIG. 9 is a view showing marking on a drug sheet judged as a medicine shortage, 11 is a view showing the rotation state of the heater roller of the sealing unit.

Referring to FIG. 7, the medicament is delivered to the auxiliary hopper 450 through the discharge area D of the rotary hopper 300. The medicine sheet 510 is folded in half by the guide member 430 disposed in front of the sealing unit 400 to form a space for accommodating the medicine. The auxiliary hopper 450 guides the medicament into the space of the folded medicament sheet 510 in half.

The medicament sheet 510 is rotated by the transverse heater roller 410 to be sealed in the transverse direction, and the longitudinal heater roller 420 is rotated and sealed in the longitudinal direction. Through this, the medicament sheet 510 packs the medicament in which the medicament is stored.

Referring to FIG. 8, the width of the medicament varies depending on the quantity of the medicament. The first package 511 of the firstly packaged drug sheet is loaded with three drugs and packed to an appropriate width. Thereafter, the second package 512 is packed with five medicines and is packed with a width larger than the width of the first package 511. Three drugs are injected into the third and fifth packages 513 and 515, and five drugs are injected into the fourth package 514. The third to fifth packages 513, 514 and 515 are packed in corresponding widths.

The packaging width of the medicine sheet 510 senses the quantity of medicines according to the inspection of the image input device 153 (see FIG. 4). By detecting the quantity of the drug, the overall volume of the drug can be calculated. In addition, it is possible to input the volume of the medicine into the server or the data storage in advance, calculate the total volume of the medicine based on the inputted information, and calculate the volume of the medicine based on the distributed area of the medicine.

The volume of the medicine package proportional to the volume of the medicine can be set by calculating the volume of the medicine but the control unit can also select the medicine package width corresponding to the width of the medicine in the width of the plurality of preset medicine packages .

It is assumed that the width of the medicine is set to be selectable in four widths of 35 mm, 50 mm, 65 mm, and 80 mm.

If the control unit selects drug packaging based on the quantity, 35 mm for one to three drugs, 50 mm for drugs of 4 to 6, 65 mm for drugs of 6 to 10, and more than 10 drugs A width of 80 mm can be set to extract the number from the photographed image from the image input device 153 and to select the drug packing width belonging to the corresponding number range.

If the control unit is in the case of calculating the volume based on the captured images, select the width, for example, when the volume of the medicament of 2 ~ 4cm ^3, a 4 ~ 7cm ³ volumes of 35mm, a medicament is 50mm, The width is set to 65 mm when the medicine is 7 to 10 cm ^{3 and} to 80 mm when the medicine is 10 cm ³ or more to extract the number from the image taken from the image input device 153 and to select the medicine packing width belonging to the corresponding number range .

Based on the volume calculated as described above, the control unit regulates the sealing unit 400 to adjust the packing width of the medicament sheet 510.

Referring to Fig. 9, the sixth package 516 has a "V" (530) shape. Assuming that the sixth package 516 contains three drugs, two drugs are included. On the basis of the photographed image of the image input device 153, when the control unit judges that the medicine is insufficient, the markers (not shown) provided on the back sheet movement path of the sealing unit 400 mark the packaged medicine sheet. The pharmacist 516 in the form of a "V" (530) shape is examined separately by the pharmacist and discarded if there is a lack of medicines. If the inspection unit 160 determines that it is a mistake, the shape of the "V" 530 may be deleted and used as it is. For this purpose, the marker may be a water pen or the like capable of being erased.

Referring to Fig. 10, the roller of the sealing unit 400 includes a pair of transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b and a pair of longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b. The pair of transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b and the pair of longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b are driven separately so that the pair of transverse sealing gears 431a and 431b are rotated to thereby form a pair of transverse sealing rollers 410a, 410b.

One-phase longitudinal sealing gears 432a and 432b rotate to transmit power to the pair of longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b. When the medicine sheet 510 is supplied between the sealing units 400, the pair of transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b face each other at a position as shown in FIG. 8 and are sealed with heat and pressure. The interval between the portions sealed by the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b is the width of the medicine sheet 510. [

The longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b rotate while sealing the open face of the half-folded medicine sheet 510. [

When the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b and the lateral sealing rollers 410a and 410b rotate at the same speed, the width of the chemical sheet is determined to be the outer periphery of the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b. The transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b may be stopped while the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b are rotating or the rotational speed of the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b may be adjusted to change the width of the medicament sheet.

Referring to Fig. 11, the heaterless faces of the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b face each other. In this case, when only the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b are rotated, the width becomes wider. The contact surfaces 411a, 411b of the transverse sealing rollers 410a, 410b may include a cutter (not shown) capable of transferring heat to the drug sheet and forming perforations.

As shown in FIG. 11, the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b are rotated by predetermined widths, and the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b are simultaneously rotated to be arranged as shown in FIG. 10 to seal the chemical sheet with a predetermined width.

A heater of a good conductivity can be attached to all of the bonding surfaces of the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b, and lateral sealing can be performed every 180 degrees.

When the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b and the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b face each other without the heater as shown in FIG. 9, the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b are driven first. The longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b longitudinally seal the medicine sheet 510 by a length corresponding to a predetermined width. Since the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b are still not rotated, the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b are disposed as shown in FIG.

Then, for the lateral sealing, the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b begin to rotate simultaneously with the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b. As shown in Fig. 10, the heater-side surfaces of the pair of transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b are engaged and rotated to seal the medicine sheet.

After the medicament sheet is sealed, the transverse sealing rollers 410a and 410b and the longitudinal sealing rollers 420a and 420b rotate so that the arrangement shown in FIG. If there is a workload, the above process is repeated.

Hereinafter, a method of packaging a medicine using a medicine packaging apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a drug packaging process, FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the photographing and inspecting process of the medicine of FIG. 12 in detail, and FIG. 14 illustrates a calculation process of the width of a package based on the number and shape of medicines ≪ / RTI > FIG.

The medicine is transferred from the medicine dispenser 10 to a cell located in the collection area A among a plurality of cells formed in the rotary hopper 300 (S1001). At this stage, the medicine is supplied from the tablet cassette 15 to the main hopper 210, and the medicine is supplied to the rotary hopper 300 through the charging unit 211.

The medicine supplied to the rotary hopper 300 is photographed by the image input device 153, and based on the photographed image, it is inspected whether the medicine is delivered in the same manner as the prescription (S1002). In Fig. 4, the photographing and inspection of the medicine are shown as being performed in the collection area A, but not limited thereto, and the medicine can be photographed and inspected in any area before being transferred to the discharge part.

When the supplied medicine is photographed with the superimposed image, the vibration device 152 can disperse the medicine by vibrating the cell where the medicine is located. After vibrating the cell containing the medicament, the image input device 153 again photographs the medicines contained in the cell, and when the medicament is still photographed as an overlapping image, the vibrating device 152 vibrates the cell again Repeat the process. Through this, when an image of the dispersed drug is obtained, data of the drug can be obtained based on the image.

Based on the photographed images of the medicines, quantity, shape, and area information are acquired and the volume of the medicament is calculated based on the information. Based on the calculated volume, the width of the medicine sheet is set or an appropriate width among a plurality of predetermined widths is selected (S1003).

Based on the set or selected width, the printing unit 600 prints the drug information in a predetermined area of the drug sheet 510, and rotates the longitudinal sealing rollers 520a, 520b of the sealing device 500, And feeds the sheet 510 to the sealing unit 500.

When the width of the drug sheet 510 is determined, the control unit determines the area to be printed of the drug sheet 510 according to the determined width of the drug sheet 510. [ When the area to be printed on the medicine sheet 510 is moved to the printing unit 600 by the rotation of the longitudinal sealing rollers 520a and 520b of the sealing unit 500, Print information. That is, the printing unit 600 and the longitudinal sealing rollers 520a and 520b of the sealing unit 500 operate synchronously by the control unit. Through this, the printing unit 600 can print on the medicine sheet 510 while the medicine sheet 510 is being conveyed to the sealing unit 500.

The printing unit 600 may print on the medicine sheet 510 while the medicine sheet 510 is conveyed to the sealing unit 500 and the printing unit 500 may be rotated while the medicine sheet 510 is being conveyed to the sealing unit 500. [ The medicament sheet 510 is temporarily stopped under the printing unit 600 and the printing unit 600 can print the medicament information on the medicament sheet 510. [

When the cell containing the drug transferred by the transfer member 110 is transferred to the discharge region D, the drug is transferred to the drug sheet 510 through the auxiliary hopper 450 (S1004). Thereafter, the sealing unit 400 adjusts the rotational speed of the medicinal sheet 510 with the selected width of the transverse sealing rollers 510a and 510b and the longitudinal sealing rollers 520a and 520b, (S1005).

13 shows the process of inspecting the medicine from the taken medicine image at the photographing and inspecting step of the medicine.

The medicine quantity t1 is extracted from the medicine image (S1101), and compared with the medicine quantity t2 of the prescription (S1102).

If the prescription drug quantity t2 is equal to the drug quantity t1 extracted from the image (S1103), the process of selecting the width of the drug sheet (S1003) is performed to deliver and pack the medicament to the drug sheet.

However, if there is an error in the medication delivered, it is determined whether the medication quantity t1 extracted from the medication image is greater than the prescription quantity t2 (S1104). If the quantity t1 of the medicine extracted from the image is larger than the quantity t2 of the prescription, the medicine is directly transferred to the disposal unit 310 and the stored medicine is discarded (S1105).

If the drug quantity t1 extracted from the image is smaller than the prescription quantity t2, the cell containing the drug is transferred to the re-injection area D. Thereafter, the pharmacist judges the medicine which is insufficient based on the image, and manually inserts the medicine into the re-insertion tray 221 (S1106). However, if it is determined based on the examination unit that the medicine is insufficient, the control unit can transfer the medicines in the tablet cassette to the re-dispensing unit 212 to deliver medicines.

The control unit can transfer the medicine to the drug sheet 510 by transferring the medicine to the discharge area D through the transfer member at step S1107, as long as the drug quantity t1 is smaller than the quantity t2 of the prescription. Thereafter, the medicine sheet is sealed by the sealing unit 400 (S1108), and the drug sheet 510 packed with the medicine is marked by the marker placed in the path passing through the sealing unit 400 (S1109) .

Thereafter, the drug marked on the package is inspected by the pharmacist to see if it is the same as the prescription (S1110). Thereafter, if it is the same medicine as the prescription, the marker indication is deleted, and if the medicine is discordant with the prescription, the medicine is discarded (S1111).

Referring to Fig. 14, a plurality of medicines T are supplied to the bottom portion 150a of the collection area A. Fig. The control unit compares the drug data stored in the server or the repository on the basis of the shape of each photographed drug T to determine the type of drug. The volume of the medicament T according to the kind of each medicament T is used to determine the width of the medicinal sheet 510 based on the volume of the medicament T and to select the width of the medicinal sheet 510 from a preset width, You can decide.

Also, the width can be roughly selected based on the number of photographed medicines.

As another method, it is possible to calculate the width and length (l1, l2) based on the photographed image, calculate the volume based on the calculated width, and select the width to which the medicine can be packed.

For example, the volume of the medicine can be roughly set by multiplying the height of the predetermined medicine by the area of the medicine obtained by the product of the width (l1) and the height (12) of the medicine of the shot image. The control unit may determine the width of the drug sheet 510 in the calculated volume and instruct it to perform the sealing with the width of the drug set in the range or the width of the determined drug sheet 510. [

As described above, according to the medicine packing method according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to determine the accuracy of the medicine supply based on the photographed images, and at the same time, the quantity, type, , The volume information of the entire drug can be obtained, and the width of the drug sheet can be determined based on the volume information, which makes it possible to quickly pack the drug.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

1: drug packing device 10: drug dispensing device
20: Lower body 210: Main hopper
300: Rotary hopper 400: Sealing unit
500: sheet feeding roller 600: printing unit

Claims (18)

Receiving a medicine from any one of the plurality of cells formed in the rotary hopper from the medicine dispensing apparatus;
Photographing and inspecting the supplied medicine;
Selecting a width of a predetermined drug sheet based on the photographed drug image;
Delivering the medicament to a medicament sheet; And
And sealing the medicament sheet with the selected width. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step of selecting the predetermined drug sheet width comprises:
Acquiring area information from the photographed medicament image, and selecting a width of the predetermined medicament sheet corresponding to the obtained area information from a plurality of widths of a predetermined medicament sheet. The method according to claim 1,
The step of photographing and examining the medicament,
And vibrating the cell where the medicament is located and photographing the medicament again when the supplied medicament is photographed with an overlapping image. 3. The method of claim 2,
Printing drug information on a predetermined area of the drug sheet based on the selected width before delivering the drug to the drug sheet and transferring the drug sheet to the sealing unit upon printing of the drug sheet; Packaging method. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sealing comprises:
And after the longitudinal heater roller is rotated and sealed by the predetermined width, the transverse heater roller and the longitudinal heater roller are rotated and sealed together. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the sealing step comprises rotating the transverse heater rollers by 180 degrees. The method according to claim 1,
And discarding the medicine contained in the cell supplied with the medicine and supplying the medicine to the cell again when the quantity extracted from the taken medicine image and the quantity of the prescription are different. The method according to claim 1,
If the quantity extracted from the photographed drug image is different from the quantity of the prescription, indicating that the drug contained in the supplied cell is a marker that can be erased on the sealed drug sheet. The method according to claim 1,
And supplying the missing medicine through the re-dispensing unit when the quantity extracted from the taken drug image is smaller than the quantity of the prescription. The method according to claim 1,
And supplying the medicament through a special injection unit capable of individually supplying the atypical tablet or the special-handling medicament. A rotary hopper in which a plurality of moving cells are formed and the medicine is delivered from the medicine dispenser to the discharge unit through one of the plurality of cells through the injection unit;
An examining unit for photographing and examining the delivered medicines;
A control unit for selecting a width of a predetermined drug sheet based on the photographed drug image; And
And a sealing unit that receives the medicine from the rotary hopper to the medicine sheet and seals the medicine sheet with the selected width. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the control unit comprises:
Acquires area information from the photographed medicament image, and selects a width of the predetermined medicament sheet corresponding to the obtained area information from a plurality of widths of a predetermined medicament sheet. 12. The method of claim 11,
The sealing unit may include:
A pair of longitudinal sealing rollers disposed under the discharge portion and sealing longitudinally of the medicament sheet folded in half; And
And a pair of transverse sealing rollers sealing in the transverse direction of the medicament sheet,
Wherein the control unit comprises:
And determines the stopping and driving of the pair of transverse sealing rollers based on the predetermined medicament sheet width. 14. The method of claim 13,
And a printing unit for printing the medicine information on the medicine sheet,
Wherein the printing unit prints the drug information on the drug sheet while the drug sheet is transported to the sealing unit by the longitudinal sealing roller. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the rotary hopper includes a re-injection unit for supplying the missing medicine when the quantity extracted from the photographed drug image is smaller than the quantity of the prescription. 12. The method of claim 11,
And a marker, which is contained in the cell to which the drug is supplied, can be erased on the sealed drug sheet when the quantity extracted from the taken drug image is smaller than the quantity of the prescription. 12. The method of claim 11,
The inspection unit includes:
An image input device for photographing one cell including the delivered medicament; And a vibrating device for dispersing the tablet of said one cell. 12. The method of claim 11,
The rotating hopper
An additional injection section for supplying at least one of an atypical agent or a special-purpose agent.

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